by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Blend Images/ERproductions Ltd Creative/Getty Images In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer. The consumer is empowered to ask for treatment options and costs, potential treatment risks, realistic outcomes, and much more....
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andy Roberts/Getty Images An all-star team is making headway with a new initiative that could alter the future of the organization. Spirits are optimistic and the team is successfully maneuvering through new, yet very promising, territory. Then, the results begin...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
PM Images/Getty Images On November 12, the United States, European Union, and Japan will submit a package of proposals to the World Trade Organization’s Council on Trade in Goods that would significantly help curb China’s practices of heavily...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
June Buck/Getty Images A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. Having delivered seven years of breakthrough performance and nearing retirement, she was eager to select and prepare her successor. Members of her executive team were strong in their current...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
The other day while I was buying lunch at our local food coop, the check-out person smiled at me and wished me a good afternoon. I did the same, and we shared a beautiful moment of genuine social connection. As a neuroscientist who has spent the past 30-plus years...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
June Buck/Getty Images A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. Having delivered seven years of breakthrough performance and nearing retirement, she was eager to select and prepare her successor. Members of her executive team were strong in their current...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 9, 2018 | HBR
It is a scary illness, not just for parents but for doctors, too: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) causes sudden weakness and loss of muscle tone in the arms and legs and can go on to cause even more serious problems. It’s not just the symptoms that are scary. It’s also...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 8, 2018 | HBR
Growing up I had to wear glasses. Back then it was considered socially unacceptable, but necessary to be able to see. Sixty years later, everyone wears glasses and they are a fashion statement. Now as an aging adult, I need to wear hearing aids. This was and still is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 8, 2018 | HBR
Growing up I had to wear glasses. Back then it was considered socially unacceptable, but necessary to be able to see. Sixty years later, everyone wears glasses and they are a fashion statement. Now as an aging adult, I need to wear hearing aids. This was and still is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Chalermphon Kumchai/EyeEm/Getty Images Micromanagement gets most of the attention, but under-management may be just as big a problem. This is the term I’ve given to a constellation of behaviors that I’ve seen occurring together often during my 24 years in...
